He was discovered in the notorious Louisiana State penitentiary, Angola, in 1933, by 67-year-old folklorist John Lomax and his teenage son Alan, who were travelling around collecting songs.

While key figures associated with the American folksong revival, such as Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Alan Lomax, and Moses Asch, were white, the music traditions on which they drew were frequently African ...

When Moby sampled Vera Ward Hall's "Trouble So Hard", he was merely the latest in a long line of musicians to use as a source the field recordings made in the Deep South between 1933 and 1959 by ...

Music from French Africa included in this program forms part of the Columbia Library of Folk and Primitive Music collected by Alan Lomax. The recordings are taken from the Mus?e de L?Homme in Paris.

Shirley Collins’ reminiscences of a journey through America with Alan Lomax provide an education in folk music for Jim Hilton If you’ve read something you love on our site today, please consider ...